VacationSelector

Faro or Vancouver?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Faro
47
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Vancouver
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

FaroVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 1 points.1
FaroVancouver
Score6160
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km13109
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 30 points.30
FaroVancouver
Score4474
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2551,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2235
Museums & heritage. Vancouver leads by 12 points.12
FaroVancouver
Score2234
Museums within 10 km927
Museums within 2 km of centre815
Share of museums within 2 km %8956
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 36 points.36
FaroVancouver
Score2157
Drinking venues within 4 km143848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8671
Nightclubs within 4 km844
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 20 points.20
FaroVancouver
Score5777
Protected land share 50 km %1119
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4260
Park area within 2 km34 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 17 points.17
FaroVancouver
Score3653
Tourist attractions within 2 km1015
Park area within 2 km34 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Vancouver leads by 26 points.26
FaroVancouver
Score2248
Notable places within 2 km1463
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 20 points.20
FaroVancouver
Score7454
Price level global55.984
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 30 points.30
FaroVancouver
Score8353
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm42 mm to 245 mm
Dry months60
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroVancouver
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
4 h 35 m
€210-223
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
MunichMUC
3 h 5 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureFaroVancouver
Official languagePortugueseFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m2 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroVancouver
City population64,560662,248
People per km²3195,759
Museums within 10 km226
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3485
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.